program, hundreds of degrees offered, 24 campuses, online world campus, academic health center, law school, 157 years of tradition. it is also in world that has continued to face ongoing controversy surrounding jerry sandusky, our board of trustees, current and former administrators and me. the legal process continues to unfold as evidenced by the attorney general's further charges level yesterday. today i want to tell you about my world, the realities of running an institution the size and scope of penn state while dealing with widely divergent perceptions. i want to share the wonderful law activities and accomplishments of our students and faculty and staff over this agonizing year. by any reasonable definition they are newsworthy stories but i understand you may not be willing to listen to them until we show you how this year has changed us. what have we learned about ourselves and what are we trying to do with that knowledge? i will speak candidly about how the last year has affected by in state and how the impact has gone beyond central pennsylvania to shape policies that colleges and

a beloved father, grandfather great grandfather, uncle cousin and in law. we extend to you our deepest pledge to hold you in our prayers as you move through this season of sorrow. you have embraced and in the lord with remarkable dignity and charity a public season of grief. so thank you again for sharing george with a generation that also grieves with you. on behalf of a profoundly grateful united methodist church who proudly claims george stanley mcgovern as a son and example of our heritage of personal wholeness and social holiness i thank each of you for coming today to celebrate and monitor senator if -- senator mcgovern's life and witness. share the mcgovern family's grief. i thank you for coming to say goodbye to a dear friend, a political colleague, trusted men for -- [no audio] geography and culture of the area formed him as it has many of us, to embrace the common person and tirelessly worked for the common good. george mcgovern was also a prairie profit. he was a home town profit. in the tradition of the judeo-christian profits he called and inspired an

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